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Date of upload: Dec 14, 2023 ^^
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I say this as an Australian with some Scandinavian heritage, and who is also interested in Nordic culture: it's cringe.
Like, it's just a bunch of midwest guys named Dale that made the show Vikings their entire personality.
I like Norse mythology and Nordic culture, and I wish people would stop associating it with Nazis, but this is tacky and lame.
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Being one myself, here's how to be a real modern-day Viking:
Live in Scandinavia.
Don't whine when it gets cold.
Don't be a business owner.
Seriously, it's annoying when folks who have no interest in the broader culture are larping as if they can represent Nordic culture because they go to the gym a lot. A lot of Old Norse culture has been lost, or destroyed intentionally by Christian zealots, so if people want to engage with Nordic culture they gotta look to real academic historians and archaeologists, and those who interpret their findings in a way that's deeply rooted in the lands of Scandinavia. The larpers are mostly just re-enacting the same cartoon version of Nordic culture the Romans wrote about and which the Nazis idealized as a quest for physical power. I don't assume they do this because they're Nazis, but they're making the same mistakes of interpretation as the Nazis - and so many others - have, so in the best case it's larping an ancient stereotype, the way civilized peoples described barbarians, and at worst they're obsessing about Nordic racial prowess in exactly the way the Nazis did.
The Vikings were stronger and braver men than I am, but I bet none of these larpers realize the Vikings spent more time knitting and basket-weaving than they did training and fighting... They were real people who had to live real lives, and the only way to show them any respect is to learn about them from real experts who dedicate their lives to rediscovering lost history.
To me, Americans claiming to be Vikings are doing essentially the same as Americans who claim to be Native Americans. No, you're not. You're a bored white guy who has no connection to your various European ancestries. Good on you for going to the gym and running around in the snow, but that doesn't MAKE you anything, and you CAN'T appropriate Norse culture, ESPECIALLY if you're not willing to take it seriously on its own terms.
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"This is great guys! The vikings were very family oriented, and the wife was in full control of the house and business when the men were away, and they were even allowed to live unwed with their own business and fortune! They also didn't care about wedlock, or legitimacy, so women weren't shamed for getting pregnant! Compared to some of the aspects of our modern society they were very ahead of their time, this is a great message to spread to other men about women!...Wait guys, where are you going??? I thought you liked the vikings!?!"
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Amon Amarth go super hard. Theyâre also the biggest death metal band in the world. They donât talk much about politics but when they do theyâre actually decently progressive for the genre. Not saying theyâre leftists or anything but definitely on the more liberal side of things. I use their album âTwilight of the Thunder Godâ as part of my gym playlist.
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Back in my day being pagan was gay. Like if you were a lesbian who wanted to pop off, you went pagan. Was it cringe to see my middle aged moms jumping over bonfires and tending to carefully crafted alters, sure, but less cringe then this. But tho I never got into bc I was to busy pretending to be a satanist to scare our neighbors, I donât remember paganism being about self improvement and a grindset attitude. Again I refused to pay much attn but in my memory it was about appeasing the gods so you didnât starve during winter. Like there was one ceremony (I forget which) but I had to help wrap bread in tin foil and build a guy to burn as a sacrifice. Something about harvest. Idk I was 16 and high. But def not anything dude was talking about.
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The Vikings were also quite opportunistic, which takes a much from their so-called "warrior culture". If they approached your community and your people had superior weapons and numbers they portrayed themselves as nothing more than "farmers" and "traders". God help you if you were caught in the wild without an army behind you, then you were ripe for plundering and looting. Sure pirates and gangsters are fun and cool, but that's hardly the stuff of a superior people with an indomitable mindset or immortal warriors.
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@CorrectFossa
5 months ago
Shout out to Leif Erikson for landing in North America, realizing people already lived here, and leaving.
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